The Local Alternative Decentralization and Economic Development

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-06-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Decentralization in Latin America and the Caribbean has changed the region's local development model. More resources and decision-making powers are being transferred from central governments to the local level. This new political, administrative, and fiscal landscape is creating new challenges and opportunities for subnational governments and for local economic development in the region. The Local Alternativeoffers a series of experiences, reflections, and lessons on how the new, decentralized institutional framework influences diverse aspects of the economic development processes at the local level. The book's chapterswritten by a variety of actors ranging from experts in international organizations to policymakers at the national and subnational levelshighlight, among other experiences, local management within a context of greater autonomy, experiments with different subnational transfer and financing systems, and alternatives for stimulating local competitiveness and citizen participation.

Author Biography

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is an international institution created in 1959 to foster economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.  The IDB is the main source of multilateral financing and expertise for sustainable economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Table of Contents

Introduction * I. Decentralization and Local Economic Development * 1. Exploring Conditions for Local Economic Development In Decentralized Systems of Government-Tim Campbell * 2. The Experience in Latin America  -Rafael de la  * II. Local Management * 3. The Transformation of a Community to a Major Urban Center: The Mississauga Experience -Hazel McCallion * 4. Washington, D.C.: Restoring the United States Capital -Anthony Williams * 5. Catalonia: Overcoming Budgetary Limits with Public-Private Partnership and Performance Based Budgeting -Salvador Maluquer I Amorôs and Anna Tarrach I Colls * 6. Revitalizing Urban Centers -Mauricio Silva and Roberto Chávez * III. Macroeconomic Impact * 7. Decentralization and Macroeconomic Control
-Ernesto Stein8. Lessons from the Argentinean Case of the 90’s -Roberto Lavagna * 9. Fiscal Decentralization and Macroeconomic Performance -Anwar Shah * IV. Subnational Financing * 10. The Political Economy of Decentralization and Good Governance in Latin America -Ehtisham Ahmad and Mercedes García-Escribano * 11. Financing and Public Services in Belo Horizonte
-Julio Ribeiro Pires and Álvaro Pio Júnior * 12. Reforming Mexico’s Fiscal Federalism  -José Antonio González Anaya * 13. Subnational Entity Credit Risk Ratings -Victor Manuel Herrera, Daniela Brandazza and Fabiola Ortíz * 14. Structural Funds for Regional Development in the European Union -Rosa Cobo Mayoral * V. Competitiveness and Globalization * 15. “Doing Business:” How to Improve Local Competitiveness -Fernanda Almeida * 16. Decentralization, Competitiveness and Globalization: Opportunities and Challenges -Eduardo Wiesner * VI. Local Community Participation * 17. Decentralization in Colombia and the Transformation of Bogotá  -Jaime Castro * 18. The Private Sector as a Promoter of Citizen Control in Colombia -María Fernanda Campo * 19. Decentralization and Governance: from Authoritarianism to National Dialogue in Bolivia -Ronald Maclean Abaroa

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